Rockstar Social Club has been taken around the back of the shed and put out of its misery. Just the branding that is, as it appears as though Rockstar is cleaning up and getting things ready for the highly-anticipated reveal of GTA 6 next month, in which it promised it would drop the game’s first trailer.
The branding change was first spotted by Twitter user Ben, who posted several new changes to the Rockstar Games website in which the term ‘Social Club’ has been replaced with ‘Rockstar Games’ instead. New terms include “Rockstar Games members” and “Rockstar Games account”, which implies that the Social Club has been scrapped entirely in favor of a more generic branding. Some have even noticed the site’s logo has changed its colors as well.
Right now, you’ll struggle to find any Social Club branding at all, though there are traces of it left on the site. First noted by PC Gamer, you can still see the branding very briefly when logging in and out of the Rockstar Games launcher before it reverts to the new branding, while Social Club titles reportedly still remain on the menus of Red Dead Redemption 2.
It really does take fans overanalyzing branding changes to realize just how starved for information we all are at this point.
You may be asking what this all means? More than likely, this is just a simple branding change to usher in a new era of Grand Theft Auto and Rockstar Games as a whole. GTA 6 being released into the world will be an absolutely massive moment in the industry’s history, there’s no doubt about it. Rockstar more than likely wants everything tidy and uniform before it pulls the trigger, prepping itself to receive a massive wave of players and renewed interest.
As for when we’ll get that elusive GTA 6 reveal trailer, Rockstar has only revealed that it will drop next month for the studio’s 25th anniversary. There’s a slight possibility it could show up at Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards event, though Rockstar has mostly done its own thing when it comes to past reveals, banking on its prestige to spread the word. We don’t quite know the exact date as to when Rockstar was founded, but December 10 is being floated around as a possible date to mark in your calendars.
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